The folks over at Hennessey Performance wanted to massage their HPE800 kitted Ford Mustang. As the name would suggest, the kit features a supercharger for the 5.0L V8, a host of bolt ons from fuel system upgrades to freeing flow through the intake system which bumps the horsepower tally to the 800 mark.

Hennessey decided to do an exterior refresh of their HPE800 Mustang to celebrate their 25 year anniversary. But customers who want to own one of these limited edition cars will have to jump on them quick. Hennessey is only planning on making 25 units.

Most recently, we brought you the latest version of Bumblebee in the up coming installment of the Transformers. Now we bring you the latest iteration of Barricade of the evil Decepticons. Although we don’t have high hopes for the new movie, but one can’t deny the menacing look of Barricade who takes the form on the current generation Ford Mustang.

Barricade still has all the essence of a bad cop with an aggressively designed front bumper, those thick front bumper bars, a large rear wing, and a protective rear bumper bar to round things off out back. Engine details are limited, but we are hoping the hero car will be using the 5.2L V8 found in the GT350 which pumps out a hefty 526hp. Even though in movie mode the car will not likely use all that power, but the audio tune it belts out will be music to our ears if it hits the big screen.

Center stage at the Ford booth here at the 2015 SEMA Show was the Ford GT Le Mans race car, unveiled this summer, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Ford’s 1966 overall victory. The new race car is based on the all-new Ford GT supercar unveiled last January in Detroit and features the most powerful production EcoBoost engine, a twin-turbo V6.

As with last year, there were numerous Mustangs, Focus, and F-150s with mild to radical modifications. The Ford booth at SEMA is always a fun booth to walk through as there is usually something different to check out. In fact, for 2015 the Ford Mustang won the SEMA Show’s Hottest Car award which is based on how many tuners/exhibitors had a Mustang on display. There were some pretty crazy Mustangs at SEMA, but my favorite one was actually in the Ford booth this year. You can check it out in the gallery below, it’s the white widebody with blue wheels built by Ice Nine Group.

In an era where engines are being downsized for fuel economy, a nasty side effect is that the natural engine sounds are also being attenuated by the turbochargers used to make up for the lost displacement. Add on improved sound deadening for a quieter cabin and the problem gets even worse. The Volkswagen GTI replaced its natural engine noise with a speaker mounted on the firewall to project fake engine sounds as did the BMW M5 when its natural aspirated V10 was replaced with a twin turbo V8 setup. Now, as Road & Track has discovered, Ford too is moving away from a passive sound pipe to an active speaker based fake engine sound system on the Ford Mustang EcoBoost.

Ford calls it Active Noise Control. Using the factory head unit, Ford pipes in an engine soundtrack based on the real-time engine data. So, while it may be great if you like to hear the engine sing while you stomp on the accelerator, a side effect is that if you choose to change out your factory stereo to something aftermarket, your new Mustang will sound like it lost its mojo.